501 not out | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo ESPN Cricinfo June 6 down the years 501 not out Brian Lara surpassed Hanif Mohammad's 499 Graham Chadwick / © PA Photos 1994 On the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Brian Lara achieved immortality with the highest score in first-class cricket history: 501 not out. As if his Test-record 375 wasn't enough, Lara took the first-class record within two months when he surpassed Hanif Mohammad's 499, while playing for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston . He had a few near-misses - Lara was bowled off a no-ball on 12 and then was dropped by wicketkeeper Chris Scott on 18 (Scott apparently said: "Oh dear, he'll probably go on and get a hundred"). Technically there was only one ball left when he creamed John Morris through the covers for four to bring up the magic 500. In all Lara faced only 427 deliveries, and hammered 62 fours and ten sixes. On the final day he whacked 174 runs before lunch.

For good measure, he also became the first man to make seven hundreds in eight first-class innings, the first of which was the 375. He lost his Test record briefly to Matthew Hayden in 2003, but took it back in April 2004 with 400 against England in Antigua . 1957 The career of Mike Gatting , who was born today, split into three distinct segments. He struggled at first, taking seven years and 54 innings to make his first Test century. But after breaking that duck with 136 in Mumbai in 1984-85 , Gatting went on a storming two-year run in which he made nine centuries in 28 Tests and averaged 63. Then came Shakoor Rana, and an alleged liaison with a barmaid that cost him the England captaincy in 1988.

Gatting was never the same - he captained the rebel tour to South Africa in 1989, and in 51 Tests either side of his outstanding two-year run of form, he only made one century, a tortuous 117 in Adelaide in 1994-95 as the curtain came gently down on his career. 1943 One of Pakistan's finest batsmen is born... in Hyderabad, India. Asif Iqbal came a long way from the 21-year-old who opened the bowling - with his fellow debutant and future batting star Majid Khan - and batted No. 10, against Australia in Karachi in 1964-65. In full flow Asif was a sumptuous sight. He made his first Test century from No. 9, 146 against England at The Oval in 1967, but he eventually graduated into the middle order, where his dashing, fleet-footed strokeplay charmed everyone, not least during a successful stint in county cricket with Kent. 1988 Birth of India batsman Ajinkya Rahane .

A prolific scorer for Mumbai - he made over 1000 runs in only his second Ranji season - Rahane was on the fringes of the Indian Test team for years before he finally got his chance in the 2013 Delhi Test against Australia. He made up for a forgettable debut by establishing himself as one of India's most valuable overseas batsmen, with centuries in New Zealand, England and Australia in less than two years, filling the middle-order vacancy left by VVS Laxman's retirement. Rahane has the ability to adapt to different formats as well, with strong showings in the IPL at the top of the order. 1991 After all the fuss, 25-year-old Graeme Hick finally made his England Test debut against West Indies at Headingley . Most pundits had already booked him in for 100 Tests, 8000 runs and an average of 50, but it didn't quite work out like that.

In fairness, it was an unforgiving baptism - Curtly Ambrose tortured him all summer, dismissing him six times in a row, but it was Courtney Walsh who ended his first innings when Hick fenced to Jeffrey Dujon, having made just 6. 1930 A typhoon is born. In terms of raw, unbridled pace, few bowlers in history can match England's Frank Tyson . Richie Benaud rated him the quickest he ever saw. In 17 Tests, Tyson took 76 wickets at an average of 18. This was no brainless quickie, however - Tyson was a Durham University graduate, and had a penchant for quoting Shakespeare or Wordsworth to batsmen, something you can't quite imagine Glenn McGrath ever doing. Most famously, Tyson blew away Australia as England retained the Ashes in 1954-55. After starting off with 1 for 160 in defeat in Brisbane, he shortened his run and took ten wickets in Sydney and nine more in Melbourne , when he collected 7 for 27 in the second innings and frightened the life out of the Aussies.

Injury plagued his career, though, and he emigrated to Australia, where he became a headmaster for a time, before coaching Victoria. 1982 Birth of Pakistan left-arm fast bowler Mohammad Irfan , who at 7ft 1in is one of the tallest cricketers to have played the game. When a club cricketer, he was spotted by Aaqib Javed and that chance meeting allowed Irfan to give up his job in a plastic pipe factory and dream of playing for Pakistan. He debuted at 28 on the one-day leg of the 2010 England tour, and while injuries interrupted his career at the start, he went on to make a regular place for himself in the limited-overs sides, troubling batsmen with his bounce and speeds of over 140kph. 1994 Brian Lara's 501 overshadowed a routine England victory over New Zealand at Trent Bridge , in a match that ended on the same day.

England won by an innings for the first time at home in nine years, thanks mainly to Graham Gooch (210, his last Test hundred), and Phil DeFreitas , who in addition to taking 9 for 165 in the match, made a quick-fire 51 and became the 100th person to take 100 Test wickets. 1940 Birth of the South African allrounder Herbert "Tiger" Lance , who played 13 Tests. He was a handy strokeplayer in the lower middle order, and a useful third- or fourth-change seamer. He took 3 for 30 in his first Test innings, against New Zealand in Johannesburg in 1961-62. His finest hour with the bat also came in Johannesburg, when he made 44 and 70 against Australia in 1966-67 , a match that South Africa won at a canter despite trailing on first innings. 1969 Birth of the Indian left-arm spinner Sunil Joshi , whose Test career had one distinct highlight.

In Bangladesh's inaugural Test , in Dhaka, Joshi pooped the party with 92, his only Test fifty, and eight wickets, including his only five-for. It set up India's second overseas victory in 14 years. He had one notable one-day performance as well, grabbing 5 for 6 against South Africa in Nairobi in 1999-2000. 1959 Tahir Naqqash , born today, took 34 wickets each in his 15 Tests and 40 ODIs, bowling right-arm fast-medium and offbreaks. But he never bettered his performance in his first Test, in Karachi , where he made his only half-century and took five wickets. Despite a Test career that lasted just three years, Naqqash managed to make tours to Australia, India, England and New Zealand.

Other birthdays Cricket: 501 not out: Lara becomes world's first batsman to score 500 runs | The Independent Cricket: 501 not out: Lara becomes world's first batsman to score 500 runs Monday 6 June 1994 23:02 BST Click to follow The Independent Online THE DURHAM scorer, Brian Hunt, said he had never worked as hard in his life but it had been worth it. He looked tired, but elated, just like Brian Lara himself. That same glazed, slightly awed look was on the faces of the 500-plus spectators patiently queueing for completed scorecards after the game. They had seen history made and they wanted to be able to prove it. In scoring an unbeaten 501 for Warwickshire against Durham yesterday, Lara added the most prized batting record in non-international cricket to the Test equivalent he garnered less than two months ago against England in Antigua. He has, at barely 25, cemented his position with the likes of Bradman, Hobbs and Grace in cricket's pantheon of greats.

The previous record, held by Hanif Mohammad for 35 years, has always appeared as unattainable as Gary Sobers' Test record had. It was one of those statistics fans learn as schoolboys and never have to alter. Such is Lara's appetite for runs one wonders whether this record will last the season. After breaking the record, Lara said: 'I don't think I'm a great cricketer. It's nice to have records and be on top but I've still got a lot of cricket ahead of me and I need to be more consistent. 'Records are there to be broken and I'm happy to be the one doing it. If the records I have set are broken I hope I am the one doing it. It's hard to compare my Test 375 with 501 here. You just have to cherish both of them.' Of Lara's seven centuries in his last eight innings this was, ironically, the most fortunate. In its gestation, on Friday he was bowled off a no-ball for 10 and dropped by the wicketkeeper Chris Scott six runs later.

Yesterday he gave a difficult chance at 238 and another at 413 - which was fortunately hit in the direction of his team-mate Michael Burns (fielding for Durham), who not surprisingly failed to reach it. With the game killed as a contest by Saturday's washout and a weakened Durham's understandable reluctance to set a target, Lara took a while to reach top gear yesterday, adding 27 runs to his overnight 111 in his first 41 balls. He then accelerated, adding 147 off the next 78 to be 285 at lunch. Suddenly the records appeared lined up before him and, having asked his captain, Dermot Reeve, not to declare, one by one he knocked them down. At 306 he passed Warwickshire's highest score, at 406 he passed the highest in England this century. Twenty runs later Archie MacLaren's 99-year-old record score in England had gone. A welter of other records went as well, including the most boundaries in an innings and most runs in a day, but by now all attention was on the big one, Hanif's 499.

Having made 174 runs in the first session, including an enormous six off David Cox over deep midwicket, he added 133 in the second, leaving him 82 short at tea. At this stage, he was feeding the strike to Keith Piper, who went on to a century, although he did take 18 off a Phil Bainbridge over, including an all-run four. At 497, he played three balls from the occasional bowler John Morris defensively then was surprised to be cracked on the helmet by a bouncer off the fourth. At this stage, Piper reminded Lara that technically the game could be called off in two balls' time as there was no prospect of a result. The next ball was driven for four, Lara was engulfed by Piper, and play closed. Lara, who was strongest cutting and pulling or flicking off his legs, achieved most of the milestones with boundaries, including sixes to pass 200 and Hick's 405. Though the record was achieved with an off-driven four off Morris, it should be noted that throughout his innings Durham were trying, both by using proper bowlers and fielding seriously.

Wayne Larkins and Morris did bowl 10.5 overs between them but, with David Graveney and Mark Saxelby both injured, Durham were reduced to four front-line bowlers. All of them, including the debutant David Cox, went for more than 150 runs. Lara revealed afterwards just how much pressure he had been under during the final stages of his innings. 'I didn't realise we were in the last over until four balls had been bowled,' he said. 'Keith Piper came up to me and said there were only two deliveries left.' That fourth ball from Morris had hit Lara on his helmet. 'The blow was a surprise but being told I needed three runs off two balls made me very nervous,' he said. In seven innings for Warwickshire Lara has made 1,176 runs at an average of more than 235; in his last eight first-class innings he has scored 1,551 runs at more than 258. And by the way, the match was drawn.

----------------------------------------------------------------- LARA: RECORD COLLECTOR ---------------------------------------------------------------- THE FIRST-CLASS 500 CLUB ---------------------------------------------------------------- 501* B C Lara (Warwickshire v Durham, Edgbaston, 1994) THE 400 CLUB 499 Hanif Mohammad (Karachi v Bahawalpur, Karachi, 1958-59) 452* D G Bradman (NSW v Queensland, Sydney, 1929-30) 443* B B Nimbalkar (Maharashtra v Kathiawar, Poona, 1948-49) 437 W H Ponsford (Victoria v Queensland, Melbourne, 1927-28) 429 W H Ponsford (Victoria v Tasmania, Melbourne, 1922-23) 428 Aftab Baloch (Sind v Baluchistan, Karachi, 1973-74) 424 A C MacLaren (Lancashire v Somerset, Taunton, 1895) 405* G A Hick (Worcestershire v Somerset

, Taunton, 1988) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 50 DAYS OF LARA ---------------------------------------------------------------- HIS PAST EIGHT INNINGS ---------------------------------------------------------------- 375 West Indies v England (Antigua) 147 Warwickshire v Glamorgan (Edgbaston) 106 Warwickshire v Leics (Edgbaston) 120* Warwickshire v Leics (Edgbaston) 136 Warwickshire v Somerset (Taunton) 26 Warwickshire v Middlesex (Lord's) 140 Warwickshire v Middlesex (Lord's) 501* Warwickshire v Durham (Edgbaston) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- YESTERDAY'S MILESTONES ---------------------------------------------------------------- 200 Reaches double-hundred in 224 minutes off 220 balls with 30 fours and two sixes 300 Becomes first player to score triple-century at Edgbaston in either domestic or international cricket 300 Reaches triple-hundred in 280 minutes off 278 balls with 44 fours and seven sixes 306 Sets Warwickshire individual scoring record, surpassing 305 not out by Frank Foster against Worcestershire

 at Dudley in 1914 323 Achieves highest score by a West Indian in England, beating 322 by Viv Richards for Somerset against Warwickshire at Taunton in 1985 325 Equals Don Bradman's 1938 achievement of 1,000 runs in seven first-class innings 400 Reaches quadruple-hundred in 367 minutes off 350 balls with 53 fours and eight sixes 406 Achieves highest score in England this century, beating Graeme Hick's 405 .

. .not out for Worcestershire against Somerset at Taunton in 1988 411 Becomes 19th player to score 300 runs in a day 425 Achieves highest ever score in England, beating Archie MacLaren's 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton in 1895 429 Helps Warwickshire set county record total, beating 657 for 6 v Hampshire in 1899 and 657 for 7 v Glamorgan this season 457 Achieves highest individual score in a day, beating the 345 made by Charlie Macartney for Australia against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in 1921 494 Breaks record for most boundaries in an innings, beating 68 by Percy Perrin for Essex v Derbyshire at Chesterfield in 1904 501 Sets all-time individual scoring record ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- LARA FACT FILE ----------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 2 May, 1969, Santa Cruz, Trinidad.

Youngest of seven brothers in family of 11 Age 7: Recognised as prodigy, taken to coaching clinic by sister, Agnes Age 15: Plays Under-19 representative cricket Age 18: Makes first-class debut. Captains West Indies Under-23 team against Pakistan Age 20: Captains West Indies B in Zimbabwe. Captains Trinidad and Tobago Age 21: Makes Test debut for West Indies v Pakistan Age 24: Scores first Test century against Australia in Sydney. Goes on to score 273. Makes highest score in Test history of 375 against England in Antigua on 18 April Age 25: Becomes first player to score seven centuries in eight first-class innings on 3 June. Innings of 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham breaks host of records, including highest score in first- class cricket ----------------------------------------------------------------- (Photograph omitted) Brian Lara's 375: The inside story of a world record-breaking innings - BBC Sport Brian Lara's 375: The inside story of a world record-breaking innings By Marc Higginson Read more about sharing.

Twenty years ago this week, West Indies batsman Brian Lara broke Sir Garfield Sobers's 36-year-old world record for the highest score in a Test innings. The legendary left-hander surpassed his compatriot's 365 not out as he scored 375 against England at Antigua's Recreation Ground in a historic match played from 16-21 April 1994. BBC Sport spoke to those who witnessed his world record innings close up: two of Lara's West Indies team-mates - Phil Simmons and Shivnarine Chanderpaul - and five England players who suffered in the field: Angus Fraser, Jack Russell, Phil Tufnell, Graham Thorpe and Alec Stewart. First morning: A false dawn for England England went into the final Test of a five-match series on a high after becoming the first touring side to win in Barbados for 59 years in the previous Test, even though they were 3-1 down with the series gone. After losing the toss and being asked to field on a flat-looking wicket, England reduced the Windies to 12-2 - leaving Brian Lara and Jimmy Adams at the crease. Who's who? England players...

Angus Fraser: Fast bowler, 46 Tests, 177 wickets at an average of 27.32 Jack Russell: Wicketkeeper, 54 Tests, 1,897 runs at 27.10, 153 catches and 12 stumpings Alec Stewart: Batsman (later wicketkeeper and captain), 133 Tests, 8,463 runs at 39.54, 263 catches & 14 stumpings Graham Thorpe: Batsman, 100 Tests, 6,744 runs at 44.66 Phil Tufnell: Spin bowler, 42 Tests, 121 wickets at 37.68. Former England fast bowler Angus Fraser: "We had lost the first three Tests and everybody was talking about a whitewash, and then we managed to win in Barbados. That was certainly a career highlight for many who played in that game - I got some wickets (8-115 in the match) and Alec Stewart got a hundred in each innings.

It meant a dead series suddenly came to life." Ex-England wicketkeeper Jack Russell: "When we got a couple of early wickets, I started thinking 'this is going alright, we'll knock this lot over and won't be out here for too long...'" Fraser: "Things were looking quite positive but then Lara got in and just batted." Ominous signs as Lara takes control Brian Lara scored 11,953 runs in his 131 Test matches at an average of 52.88 During the remainder of the first day, Lara took West Indies to 274-3, advancing his score to 164. Former England batsman Graham Thorpe: "He kept the same pace throughout his innings, there didn't seem to be a single risk taken in it. There was an inevitability about it all." Russell: "The ball never looked like missing the middle of his bat." Ex-England spinner Phil Tufnell: "I bowled my first over and was putting my jumper back on when Mike Atherton, the England captain, came over to me and said: 'Brian's batting well today, he might break the record.' He was only on 60!

Athers was a clever bloke and he got it spot on." Day Two: Lara tightens his grip on the game Lara continued to pile on the runs, reaching 320 not out by the close of the second day. At the other end, he had been joined by 19-year-old Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who was playing in his debut series. Who's who? Windies players... Shivnarine Chanderpaul: Batsman, 153 Tests, 11,219 runs at 51.93 Phil Simmons: Batsman, 26 Tests, 1,002 runs at 22.26 West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul: "He was probably the most focused I have seen him. He mentioned the record while he was in the dressing room and he was getting a lot of phone calls about it, but he always remained focused." Former West Indies batsman Phil Simmons: "The biggest thing I can remember was his determination, from not being out on the first day, to get that record.

You could see it in the way he was batting." Fraser: "We realised the record was on quite early because of the nonchalant way he went from 100 to 150 to 200. Once he got to about 250, you begin to wonder where it was all going to end. By that stage you have tried all your tactics and your variety, it has not really got you anywhere and it begins to boil down to if he will make a mistake." Former England batsman Alec Stewart: "At tea, his bat looked about three feet wide. The closer it got, even though I wanted to get him out every ball, you began to realise you were watching a historic achievement close up." Simmons: "Throughout the innings, he remained the same - he'd come into the dressing room, relax and five or 10 minutes before it was time to go back out he would strap his pads back on and begin to focus again." Tufnell: "He seemed to score in blocks of 10s and 20s: you would look up at the scoreboard and you would be wondering where all the runs had come from because there were no big, powerful shots.

It was just sublime batting." Calypso cricket, Lara cruising. Sledge time? Fraser: "He was too good a player to sledge. You were wasting your time. It all comes down to who has the biggest gun and you don't have it, so you just sometimes have to accept you are playing against somebody bigger and better than you are." Chanderpaul: "I can't remember England trying to get under his skin, but that's probably because nothing was going to put him off." Russell: "There was never any arguing or sledging with the West Indies. They were so good they just got on with their cricket. With Lara, you didn't want to fire him up." Expectation was growing amongst the home fans as Brian Lara got closer to the record Fraser: "The energy within the crowd was brilliant. Antigua is a small, intimate ground which only holds 10 or 11,000. It's not in a great state of repair but it's full of character. "There was a little double-decker stand which was packed. In it was a DJ called Chickie, who played music between every ball and every over, it was real Calypso music.

The whole stand would be shaking with people dancing and bouncing up and down. It was an amazing spectacle. "I fielded down there and there was some playful jip. It was great fun and never boring." History - cartwheels, corn soup & chicken wings Lara was 320 not out at the start of the third day, still 46 runs away from breaking Sir Garfield Sobers's world record of 365, for West Indies against Pakistan in Jamaica in 1958.

Advancement of world record 165 not out: C Bannerman, Aus v Eng 1877 211: W Murdoch, Aus v Eng 1884 287: R Foster, Eng v Aus 1903 325: A Sandham, Eng v WI 1930 334: D Bradman, Aus v Eng, 1930 336 not out: W Hammond, Eng v NZ 1933 364: L Hutton, Eng v Aus 1938 365 not out: G Sobers, WI v Pak, 1958 375: B Lara, WI v Eng, 1994 380: M Hayden, Aus v Zim, 2003 400 not out: B Lara, WI v Eng 2004 Fraser: "We were aware of history potentially being made but I wasn't aware of the stuff happening behind the scenes with Garry Sobers being brought to the ground. Television crews were setting up for something significant happening.

It was the third morning when he had a little dodgy period and I had to remind him not to throw it away." Thorpe: "We heard he had played nine holes of golf that morning, so he was pretty relaxed." Stewart: "As he got closer to the record, we were trying to keep him off strike. The field did come in, but only when he drew level with the record." Lara was on 365 when he hooked Chris Lewis for four... Tufnell: "I had a quick word with Chris Lewis and told him to make him do something to earn the runs - don't just give him one off the hips so he can clip it. Chris decided to bowl him a bumper and he just pulled it away with ease and then the whole place erupted." As supporters rushed on to the pitch, Sobers, the man who had just lost the world record to Lara, walked to the middle to congratulate his compatriot. Chanderpaul (who was still batting at other end): "It was the most exciting thing I have ever witnessed. The moment was so big for everyone who was around.

Once he scored the boundary to break the record, it was difficult to get near him to celebrate with him but he came to me and then we went off to meet Sir Garry [Sobers]." Simmons: "It was emotional when it happened, the biggest thing was that the previous record holder was there to congratulate Brian. For the record to stay in the West Indies, it was great. It was done by a son of the soil. Sir Garry appreciated that." Sir Garfield Sobers said at the time: "I don't think a better person could have broken my record." Fraser: "The whole place was rocking. There were people climbing over the fences and running onto the field doing cartwheels and headstands. As a fielder, you take your cap off because you know it's a good souvenir and you don't want somebody to run past you and nick it off your head!" Simmons: "We weren't expecting to see the crowd run onto the pitch but there was nobody to stop them - the policemen were enjoying themselves too." Tufnell: "I think there was a fella selling corn soup down at third man. Mid-on was selling chicken wings and somebody turned the music up. The place went ballistic.

It took about 20 minutes for it to calm down. "I was almost proud and pleased to be involved in the occasion. I just went and sat down at mid-on and enjoyed the sunshine and the moment." Fraser: "I remember Darrell Hair, the umpire, telling somebody off for walking up and down the pitch. It was the groundsman." Hang on a minute...wasn't Lara almost out? Brian Lara dislodged a bail (the left one, above) as he pulled the ball for four to set the world record Russell: "When he went past the record, he hit the stumps. The ball was over the boundary rope in a flash, but I remember the bail going up in the air because he had knocked it with his foot or his pad. "As the ball travelled to the boundary, I was watching the bail and realising I would need to appeal if it fell off. I also thought to myself that if I do appeal, I won't make it home - I'll be lynched. The bail didn't fall off in the end but it stayed slightly out of its slot." What happened next? Fraser: "With all the chaos, nobody knew what was going on and who anybody on the pitch was.

"The most surprising thing was eventually, when the ground had been cleared, Chris Lewis went to the end of his mark to finish his over and he asked where the ball was. Despite the carnage and thousands of people out on the field, the ball was still resting against the boundary board where Lara had hit it. England's final bowling figures Fraser 43-4-121-2, Caddick 47.2-8-158-3, Tufnell 39-8-110-0, Lewis 33-1-140-0, Hick 18-3-61-0. "It would have been a great souvenir for somebody but, at the end of the innings, I got the ball and asked all of the England bowlers to sign it and presented it to him. Whether he still has it, I have no idea." Lara was eventually dismissed for 375, caught behind by Russell off the bowling of Andrew Caddick. His innings lasted 766 minutes (12 hours 46 minutes), 538 balls and he scored 45 fours but no sixes.

Russell: "It's important to keep your concentration because he did edge one to me eventually. Two and a half days later!" Chanderpaul: "At the end of that day, the dressing room was a very happy place to be. Everybody was out celebrating and having some fun. It was an exciting moment and I enjoyed it as a young fella just coming into the side in my debut series." Lara reflects on the world record in the sanctuary of the West Indies dressing room Lara's legacy Later that year, Lara would spend the summer as Warwickshire's overseas player. On 6 June, he set a new world record for the highest first-class score of all time. The 501 not out made against Durham is yet to be bettered. Lara lost his Test world record to Australia's Matthew Hayden when the opener scored 380 against Zimbabwe in Perth in 2003. However, he reclaimed the record when he scored 400 not out against England in Antigua in April 2004. Stewart: "He's the best player I have played against.

I'm splitting hairs between him and Sachin Tendulkar but I have always just put Brian at the top of the tree because he would destroy a bowling attack and, when you set fields, he would put the ball where you have just taken a fielder from. His appetite for run-scoring, while also taking the attacking option, makes him stand apart." Fraser: "You look at the top 15-20 innings that have ever been played and this fella has made half a dozen of them." Story of the match Match scorecard Thorpe: "I got to watch a lot of his innings from side on and I put a lot of my style, when I became aggressive and pro-active, down to watching great players like him. I looked at the little bits, like his foot movement, his backlift. He had everything as a player. What set him apart was his ability to get two world records and bat for that length of time." Russell: "Lara would bat and bat but he would kill you by scoring so quickly. The game would race by because he'd score two or three boundaries an over and you couldn't do anything about it.

He's one of those players who when he bats, you stop what you are doing." Additional reporting by BBC Radio 5 live's Kevin Howells and Tim Peach, and BBC Radio Derby's Owen Bradley Share this page The same date 21 years back Brian Lara scored World record 501* | The News Teller Home - Sport - Cricket - The same date 21 years back Brian Lara scored World record 501* The same date 21 years back Brian Lara scored World record 501* 6th June 2015 Cricket Leave a comment 188 Views Share Pak vs Aus 2nd Test: Australia leads by 22 runs at Day 4 stumps 3 weeks ago One of the greatest we have ever encountered in cricket, Brain Lara the Caribbean man placed something we can just call ‘awesome’. 1994 the year was greatest for Lara, as he set two world records in the same year.

He scored 375 against England in Test match, which was the highest individual score in an innings of that time, Lara stood with this record in April 1994 but his hunger for runs never get low, set another World record in the same year 1994, this time the highest score in a First-class innings. Lara playing at Britannic Assurance County Championship was representing Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston, Birmingham. Advertisements Advertisements Lara in first class cricket left behinds Hanif Mohammad’s record of 499, which he scored in 1959. Lara’s highest individual test innings score record which he set in 1994 was broken by Aussie star batsman Matthew Hayden, with his 380 against Zimbabwe in 2003.Lara never let it go, recoils back with force set 400 on the board. Lara’s 400 against England let him reclaim his record, it took around six months for Lara to recover his own record. Recalling back, Lara’s 501* in first-class cricket, interesting thing about his innings was that he played with strike rate of 117.33.

Lara scored 501 not out just utilizing 427 deliveries. On April 2007 Lara announced his retirement from all form of international cricket, ‘Classic’ fans still miss him a lot with each of their breath. The day belongs to Legend Brian Lara, salute for entertaining all of us. Video highlights of the innings: Share Leicestershire County Cricket Club 28th October 2015 LCCC announce new coaching structure Leicestershire CCC has today announced a new coaching structure led by Elite Performance Director Andrew McDonald. Keith Piper will take on the role of Elite Development Coach, Pierre de Bruyn is the new Second XI and Assistant Skills Coach while Nic Pothas has been named as Leicestershire CCC’s Academy Director. Charlie Shreck has also been given additional responsibilities as Bowling Development Coach alongside his playing commitments for the club. Leicester-born wicket-keeper Piper has been working alongside Leicestershire’s coaching staff since the start of July 2015. Piper spent 16 years at Warwickshire as a player and was part of their brilliant treble winning side of 1994.

He made a career best 116* when Brian Lara was compiling his world record 501 not out against Durham at Edgbaston. Piper scored 4,618 first-class runs and was a tremendous gloveman, taking 504 catches and 36 stumpings in first-class cricket. He claimed more than 800 dismissals for the county in both formats given he also snapped up 251 List A catches and 53 stumpings. After retiring from playing, Piper developed coaching experience with Warwickshire as Second XI Coach. The 45-year-old has also been involved in coaching England’s emerging wicket-keepers as well as offering support to the national sides of New Zealand and Pakistan. de Bruyn was an all-rounder who had a 16-year career in the professional game. He scored 4,637 first-class runs at a healthy average of 37.09 and also took 108 wickets at 29.63. de Bruyn also had a fine List A and T20 record and represented South Africa in the Hong Kong Sixes.

The 38-year-old has most recently worked as Head Coach and Technical Director with TuksCricket, the team that represents the University of Pretoria. The university has close links to Titans in South Africa, a franchise that has AB de Villiers, Francois du Plessis and the Morkel brothers on their roster. de Bruyn’s achievements at TuksCricket has seen six domestic titles won since the start of the 2010-11 season and the team recently represented South Africa again to defend their Red Bull Campus Cricket T20 title in India. Currently on the ECB Level 4 programme, Pothas had a 19-year professional playing career including a successful nine-year playing period for Hampshire CCC. The wicket-keeper/batsman made appearances for the South Africa National Team and his career record included 11,438 first-class runs at a tremendous average of 40.85 as well as 659 victims behind the stumps. Upon retiring from playing, Pothas took up a role with the Guernsey Cricket Board, where he became the Channel Islands’ first Director of Cricket and first full-time cricket specific coach.

The 41-year-old has also worked as wicket-keeping and batting coach with Sussex CCC at First XI, Second XI and Academy level and has experience with the Elite International Cricket Academy, which was based at Hampshire’s Ageas Bowl. Shreck will take on a dual role at Leicestershire County Cricket Club during the 2016 season. The 37-year-old has been given additional responsibilities as Bowling Development Coach alongside his playing commitments at Grace Road. The opportunity will allow Shreck to accelerate his learning in the coaching of first-class cricketers while still being a key member of the playing staff. Shreck will be assisting in the delivery of the winter programme along with key in-season responsibilities. Leicestershire and Rutland Cricket Chief Executive Wasim Khan MBE said: “We are delighted to be bringing in three high-quality people to be working alongside Elite Performance Director Andrew McDonald as part of our new coaching structure at Leicestershire County Cricket Club. “Keith Piper, Pierre de Bruyn and Nic Pothas all shone through in the interview process and will bring a variety of key attributes to their positions.

It is also great that Charlie has accepted some additional responsibilities as Bowling Development Coach as he had a big influence on our attack last season alongside Clint McKay. “We have made some big additions to the playing squad over the last few weeks and it’s fantastic that we have now finalised our coaching restructure. Everything is taking shape nicely as we look towards the 2016 season.” OTHER NEWS Rewind to 1994: Brian Lara's 375 - The world record that nearly wasn't | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo The world record that nearly wasn't Twenty years ago this week, Brian Lara became Test cricket's highest scorer, but he almost didn't make it 33 Brian Lara pulls Chris Lewis to break the world record Test score... and dislodges his off-side bail in doing so © Getty Images Twenty years ago this week, one of cricket's most famous landmarks was broken in Antigua when Brian Lara pulled Chris Lewis for four and in so doing passed Garry Sobers' record of 365 for the highest Test innings. As Lara removed his helmet and raised his arms to the heavens he was almost immediately engulfed by supporters, and then Sobers stiffly walked to the middle to offer his personal congratulations.

"While there was understandable joy, there was no real surprise among many of his countrymen at the left-hander's achievement," Wisden noted. "[There was] simply the feeling that his inevitable date with destiny had arrived rather more suddenly than expected." Lara's genius had been apparent from an early age. Aged 15 he had rattled off seven hundreds in a senior school season. In his second first-class match, aged 19, he made a five-hour 92 against a Barbados attack including Malcolm Marshall and Joel Garner. His international career had to wait, thanks in part to the vagaries of the West Indies selectors, until Viv Richards and Gordon Greenidge retired and created a permanent vacancy which he immediately filled. His 277 in Sydney in January 1993 raised his profile massively and is still regarded as one of the great Test innings. When England arrived in the Caribbean in early 1994 the era of West Indies' complete dominance had ended but they were still a formidable side, all the more so at home. Few expected England to seriously compete in, let alone win, the series, and heavy defeats in the first three Tests raised the prospect of another whitewash.

But a remarkable and morale-boosting win at fortress Bridgetown in the fourth Test gave England renewed belief to set up the series finale at the St John's Recreation Ground. On what was predicted - rightly - to be a featherbed track, West Indies won the toss but within half an hour were 12 for 2. "When we got a couple of early wickets, I started thinking, 'This is going all right'," Jack Russell England's wicketkeeper, told the BBC. "We'll knock this lot over and won't be out here for too long." Jimmy Adams joined Lara and England's hopes evaporated in the heat. The pair effortlessly added 179, of which Adams made 59 before becoming the third and last wicket of the day. With Keith Arthurton, Lara put on 183 for the fourth wicket; Arthurton's share was only 47. At 374 for 4 England's bowlers were wilting and Shivnarine Chanderpaul, five years younger than Lara, at 19, joined him to put them to the sword in a fifth-wicket stand of 219 extending through four rain interruptions.

"[Lara] kept the same pace throughout his innings," said Graham Thorpe. "There didn't seem to be a single risk taken in it." "I bowled my first over and was putting my jumper back on when Mike Atherton, the England captain, came over to me and said: 'Brian's batting well today, he might break the record'" England left-arm spinner Phil Tufnell In the final session of the second day Lara passed 300 and the realisation dawned to the wider public that on such a pluperfect pitch against a weary attack, breaking Sobers' record was a reality. "You begin to wonder where it was all going to end," Angus Fraser told the BBC. "By that stage you have tried all your tactics and your variety, it has not really got you anywhere and it begins to boil down to if he will make a mistake." By the close Lara was on 320, only 46 short of the history books. The media pressure overnight was intense and by the start of the third day the Rec, always a vibrant cauldron of enthusiasm and noise, was packed to the rafters and buzzing.

Extra reporters and TV cameras were present and every vantage point, inside and outside the compact venue, was taken. Lara was one of the calmest West Indians around. "He was probably the most focused I have seen him," Chanderpaul said. "He mentioned the record while he was in the dressing room and he was getting a lot of phone calls about it, but he always remained focused." Lara takes the plaudits © Getty Images Unsurprisingly, Lara had a disturbed night. "I woke up, and couldn't get back to sleep for nerves," he said, admitting that at 4am he had been standing in front of a mirror practising his shots. He played nine holes of golf early in the morning to occupy time and relax, and when play resumed he was tired and for the first time he looked to be having to work for every run. A wretchedly slow outfield did not help, sure-fire boundaries often becoming run twos. "As the enormity of it all combined with his natural weariness, he needed shepherding through the final stages by the impressively mature Chanderpaul," Wisden noted.

At one point Lara was becalmed on 347 for more than 20 minutes and Fraser beat his outside edge with successive balls. "I don't suppose I can call you a lucky bleeder when you've got 347," he muttered. Lara smiled. England plodded on, aware there was little they could do and long since relegated to a bit-part role. The field stayed back until Lara cover-drove a boundary off Andy Caddick to bring him level with Sobers. Lewis was bowling next at Lara and Phil Tufnell said he ambled over and told him to make him work for the record. Lewis, never one to adhere to a plan, tried a short one that sat up and begged to be hit. Lara, who said, "I knew he was going to bowl me a bouncer", obliged. The ground erupted and hundreds of spectators rushed on, the police who were supposedly keeping order celebrating as much as anyone else. "The whole place was rocking," Fraser said. "There were people climbing over the fences and running onto the field doing cartwheels and headstands.

As a fielder, you take your cap off because you know it's a good souvenir and you don't want somebody to run past you and nick it off your head." In the Independent, Martin Johnson wrote: "When Lara finally staggered out from beneath the vast rugby scrum of spectators, film crews and security police that had enveloped him almost before he had raised his bat in triumph, he went down on all fours and planted a kiss on the pitch. This was part emotion at the realisation of what he had done, and part relief at the realisation that he was still alive. Had he done it in his native Trinidad, where he is comfortably the most idolised figure on the island, they would probably have torn off little bits of him in the desperate search for a souvenir." Lara relaxes in the dressing room and reflects on his achievement © PA Photos "It was difficult to get near him to celebrate with him," Chanderpaul said, "but he came to me and then we went off to meet Sir Garry." "It meant a lot to have Garry coming on like that," Lara said that night. "Ever since the Australian tour last year, he has been encouraging me.

He said I would be the one to do it." What had been missed by almost everyone was that as Lara had swung round to complete the shot he flicked the stumps with his foot and the off-side bail jumped in the air and back into the slot. Russell had seen it and was relieved the bail stayed out and he had not had to appeal. "I thought to myself that if I do I won't make it home," he said. "I'll be lynched. The bail didn't fall off in the end but it stayed slightly out of its slot." It took six minutes for calm to be restored and play to resume. When it did, Lewis, back at his mark, asked where the ball was. It was found resting where it had trickled into the wall on the leg-side boundary. Emotionally and physically drained, Lara only lasted a few more minutes before edging a tired drive to Russell off Caddick in the last over before lunch. He had batted 766 minutes - 14 minutes shy of 13 hours - for his 375, and scored 45 fours.

Drained, he headed off to be met at the side of the pitch by his team-mates holding their bats aloft to form a guard of honour for him to walk under. "Times have changed, though," Johnson observed, "and when Hutton made his 364, and Sobers his 365, neither of them was hijacked by a satellite television interviewer before being allowed to get off the field." As Lara relaxed in the relative sanctuary of the dressing room, Sobers told reporters: "I could not think of a better person to break my record. He is the only batsman today who plays the game the way it should be played - with his bat. He never uses his pads, and it is always a pride and joy to watch him play. I had to break someone else's record [Len Hutton's] to break the record, and records are always there to be broken." What happened next? In the euphoria afterwards, Trinidad's prime minister announced that he had bought Lara a house.

Johnson added: "Half the island was renamed after him, and there then followed an orgy of motorcades and personal appearances that left Lara a good deal more knackered than batting for 709 minutes." In the UK, new spread-betting firm Sporting Index got things badly wrong, having offered Lara to score 375 runs in the series. Punters in the know piled in to go higher and by the time he strode out to bat in Antigua he already had 423 runs - every run during his record-breaking innings cost the firm £1500 - £562,500 in all. Two months later Lara again entered the record books when he scored 501* for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston. He remains the only man to pass 500 in first-class cricket. Lara's Test record was broken when Matthew Hayden pummelled a poor Zimbabwe attack for 380 in October 2003. Lara, however, reclaimed it six months later when, almost exactly ten years after his 375, he scored 400 not out, also against England and once more at Antigua's Recreation Ground.

Martin Williamson is executive editor of ESPNcricinfo and managing editor of ESPN Digital Media in Europe, the Middle East and Africa © ESPN Sports Media Ltd.

Question: For which county cricket team was Brian Lara playing when he scored his world record 501 not out?
Answer: WARWICKSHIRE